Test 10 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

Did the old lady look dead old and creaky, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lady · What happens: look

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	nsubj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 creaky	cc
9	creaky	creaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 look	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the old lady					old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She looked old but moved with grace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 moved	cc
5	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 old	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 grace	case
7	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	She					old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	move	participle	She not said here					with grace	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She looked very old and creaky but moved with surprising grace and strength

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 creaky	cc
6	creaky	creaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 moved	cc
8	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 grace	case
10	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grace	amod
11	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moved	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strength	cc
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	She					old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	move	past	She not said here					with surprising grace and strength	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

She looked weak and walked slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walked	cc
5	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	She					weak property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	walk	past	She not said here					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She seemed old and quite slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slow	cc
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 slow	advmod
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 old	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	She					old property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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